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Errors in the summary of the featured article[edit]

Please do not remove this invisible timestamp. See WT:ERRORS and WP:SUBSCRIBE. - Dank (push to talk) 01:24, 29 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • ... that Kooraban National Park provides a habitat for more than twenty endangered animal species, including koalas? A few problems with this one. First, the source says "Twenty species listed as vulnerable under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 have been recorded in the park". According to our article Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995, vulnerable and endangered are two different things. Anyways I don't know if the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 controls these things in NSW given the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (NSW). Perhaps adding "in 2011" to the hook in the beginning of the hook, changing "provides" to "provided" and changing endangered to vulnerable would fix. Therapyisgood (talk) 00:24, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Cremastra, Nyanardsan, and PrimalMustelid: Courtesy notification from the nom. —Bagumba (talk) 01:48, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    If you want to change it, that's fine, but I think "endangered" can mean "threatened broadly"—whether the IUCN classes it as "vulnerable" or "endangered" or "threatened", it's still, in the general colloquial sense of the word, "endangered". Cremastra (talk) 12:43, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  • 7 May Last entry "Tore Wretman (b. 1916)" - pls tweak chronological order. JennyOz (talk) 02:39, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I swapped out Philip Baxter (b. 1905, repeat from last yr) and reduced items to (seeming) convention of 3 items and sorted—Bagumba (talk) 03:32, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Errors in the summary of the featured list[edit]

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  • Symphony No. 9 - last line of blurb "This photograph displays page 12 of Beethoven's original manuscript and is currently held in the collection of the Berlin State Library." - this reads to me as if the photograph is held in the collection, rather than meaning the manuscript. Suggest maybe changing "and" to 'which'. JennyOz (talk) 02:47, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    DoneBagumba (talk) 03:34, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]


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